User:Zenki7/Da Zenki notes! 2/Jushi

This page is a subpage of my "Da Zenki notes! 2"-blog!

It features various stuff related to the Jushi (Curse Samurai), which doesn't fit to their disambiguation page just yet and might be added to it sooner or later.

I applied this major update to the Jushi (formerly "Evil Sorcerers") article on September 24, 2017. Big thanks to Goki for making this update possible by correcting my "Noroi-Shi" mistake and giving me the necessary nudge, that doubled as my starting signal!

Curse Samurai
This is a major translation update, meant to be used in the future. I'm gonna make some additions to the former "Evil Sorcerers", soon.

I moved this here, because I don't want to confuse the viewers. Especially, because it has lots of new information, which would just straight out flatten them with its weight.

Why are they called the Evil Sorcerers, again? o.O

From mah own and most recent translation, based on the first few pages of Volume 3 of the Japanese KDZ manga, I got the following results:

Furigana writing: しじゅし Pronounciation: Shi ju-shi Kanji writing: 四呪士 Pronounciation: Shi noroi-shi

English translation: Four Curse Samurai (or "Four Curse Warriors")

四 (Shi) means four or 4. 呪 (Noroi) means curse. 士 (Shi) most commonly translates as samurai, but can also mean warrior.

Thus, they are actually the じゅし or 呪士 (Jushi), which makes them the Curse Samurai and not the Evil Sorcerers and also not the Curse Bearers!

By the way, this is also the case in the Chinese version. The only thing that changes is the pronounciation, which changes from "Shi Jushi" to "Sì zhòu shì", but has the exact same meaning.

(Noroi-Shi notes and translation by Zenki on August 29, 2017)

Jushi update
I later updated and renamed both this section and the barrier related one on September 23, 2017, when Goki notified me and reminded me, that Kikuhide Tani and Yoshihiro Kuroiwa usually use the spoken Furigana for their works.

While the pronounciation "Noroi" for the 呪 Kanji is correct, this means, that the official transliteration of the of the group's name is not Noroi-Shi, but actually Jushi.

Big thanks to Goki for telling me about this.

It makes me feel especially dumb, as I mentioned the whole "Kikuhide Tani and Yoshihiro Kuroiwa usually use the spoken Furigana for their works"-thing by myself in one of our earlier talks and then I just end up making a dumb mistake like that.

Baka, Zenki... Baka... (facepalms)

(sees the Chinese pronounciation)

I didn't see the forest for the trees...

It was like really... really obvious and I just missed it.

Goki said, this happens to everyone, but still...

Barriers
Also, there's the Curse Samurai's barrier! Here are my findings on it. Furigana writing: じゅさつじょぅけつかい Pronounciation: Juya shiro kekkai Kanji writing: 呪殺城結界 Pronounciation: Noroi ya shiro kekkai

The used pronounciation again is the first one (aka "Juya shiro kekkai"). Both of these can be directly translated as the "Curse Killing Castle Barrier". While this translation is totally fine, I like Miss Azure's currently featured "Force Field of the Deadly Curse" way better! It has the same meaning, but sounds way nicer and fits just as well!

(notes and translation by Zenki on August 29, 2017)

Names
But don't fret! Amon, Anjura, Majura, Kajura and Shijura are the chracters names from the Japanese manga!

Also, they have different names in Battle Raiden, so Amon becomes "Mouryu" and Anjura becomes "your dragon princess".

This will still take awhile to update, though, as this little Zenki has unfortunately no time for this today and while I was able to make screenshots of the other Shi Jushi's boss battles, I didn't have time to translate their dialogues, yet.

The only ones, I got to translate are the Mouryu and "your dragon princess" ones, the former, which I fully translated and the latter, which I translated partially.

This still needs a lot more work and I hope, I'm gonna have more time at mah hands tomorrow.

Good night, fellas!

-- Zenki on 21:44, August 29, 2017

In depth names
More detailed info about the whole names thing can actually be found in one of the discussions between Goki and mahself.

-- Zenki on 18:38, August 31, 2017